Oscar-winning actress (for "The Razor's Edge," 1946) who starred in "All About Eve," "The Ten Commandments" and numerous other films. TNS, oddly-trimmed (roughly rectangular) 4½" X 2", n.p., n.y. Very good. Three small tape stains at edges (one slightly touching "A" of signature). Intriguingly odd: Baxter types what's apparently a...... More
This British architect's many archaeological explorations (mainly in Greece) and writings shaped his work, which include several Banks of England, Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, Cambridge University Library, National Monument at Edinburgh and numerous other major commissions. ALS (partially clipped), 3pp, 4½" X 5½" (lettersheet), n.p., 27 September 1853. Addressed to..... More
London's Regent Street and Regent's Park are among this celebrated architect's best-known works, but his solo design of Buckingham Palace is his most acclaimed project. ANS, 1p, 4" X 6¼", London ("14 Regent S"), England, n.y. 11 June. Addressed to G. Robins. (Undated, but "1827" pencilled in another hand.) A...... More
This editor of the "Saturday Evening Herald" and drama critic at the "Chicago Inter Ocean" was a versatile Chicago writer who produced a volume of poetry, a history of the piano and a few plays. ANS, 8" X 10" (lettersheet), Chicago, IL, 11 December 1891. Addressed to Harry C. Kocherperger..... More
This nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an architect and often worked together with another H.W. Longfellow nephew and architect (Alexander W., Jr., founder of the Boston architecture firm Longfellow, Alden & Harlow) on such projects as buildings as Harvard and Radcliffe; his work on M.I.T. designs isamong his..... More
This important Hungarian-born American film executive founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915, which morphed eventually into 20th Century-Fox, and also owned a large movie theater chain in the 1920s; all came crashing down in the 1930s with bankruptcy, imprisonment on bribery and perjury charges, presidential pardon from Harry Truman..... More
This Italian conductor and composer of light music is best known for his song "Tornerai," a 1938 French version of which ("J'atttendrai") was wildly popular in France during World War Two and has been used in many films, soundtracks and television. ALS, 3pp (lettersheet), 5½" X 7", Biarritz, France, n.y...... More
This NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot served as pilot on the Gemini 11 mission (1966) and the Apollo 12 mission (1969). Signed Caricature, 8" X 10½", n.p., n.y. Near fine. Single faint horizontal fold (not weakened). Undated, but a pencilled note on verso (possibly in Rosen's hand) dates..... More
This Spanish artist from Barcelona is known for works in charcoal, pastels and oil paintings; not to be confused with Francesc Gali i Duffour (1918-2006). Signed Pencil Self-Portrait (?), 8¼" X 12", n.p., n.y. Very good. Quite minor edgewear only. Boldly pencilled head-and-shoulders sketch of a pensive man with a...... More
On February 24, 1807, President Thomas Jefferson signed "An Act authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of a number of volunteer companies, not exceeding thirty thousand men" during the Second Session of the Ninth Congress; the following year Van Rensselaer, the long-serving adjutant general of..... More
The Famed Belgian postwar abstract painter belonged to the group of noted radical artists known as COBRA (COpenhagen, BRussels, Amsterdam) and went on to produce work heralded in many an exhibition and held at many major museums. Signed calling card, heavy stock 5¼" X 3½", Liege, Belgium, n.y. Fine. Elegantly..... More
Together with Theodore Herzl, this Hungarian-born Parisian author, physician and social critic co-founded the Zionist Organization in 1897 and led the movement for what he termed "muscular Judaism" in his books and essays. ANS (in French), 1p, 4½" X 7", Paris, France, 11 February 1906. Near fine. Boldly penned in..... More
Born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Bulgaria but known simply as "Christo," this artist with wife Jeanne-Claude made headlines for decades with their gargantuan fabric-wrapped environmental installations that encased buildings, landmarks, even Central Park. Color PS, heavy stock glossy 6" X 4", n.p., n.y. Near fine. Picture postcard titled "Running Fence..... More
This Polish-French graphic artist and photographer created many posters and photographic pieces that won awards and were exhibited throughout Europe. IPS (in French), stiff color 4½" X 6¼", n.p., n.y. Fine. Color picture postcard of a 1976 collage entitled "Priere,"published by Editions du Dialogue in Paris. Disturbing likeness of Albrecht..... More
This noted French painter is remembered for his figures and many genre scenes. IPS (in French), 5" X 7¼", n.p., n.y. Fine. Parisian photographer's name/address inkstamped on verso. Glossy black-and-white photograph of a Cheyssial painting of a half-length pensive young boy in checkered sweater clutching a baton of some sort..... More
This Neapolitan-born modernist painter and sculptor worked in Paris much of his career, and his works are found in major art museums worldwide. IPS (in French), heavy stock glossy 6" X 4 3/4", n.p., n.y. Fine. Color picture postcard of his landscape "Mémoire écologique," published by the Edizioni Galleria Blu..... More
This Universalist minister and historian expounded his belief that Universalism dominated Christianity in its early centuries in such books as "Witnesses to the Truth: Containing Passages From Distinguished Authors, Developing the Great Truth of Universal Salvation" (1854) and others; in 1885 he published his own version of the New Testament..... More
This distinguished educator and famed historian of race relations and the American South won acclaim in such influential classics as "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" (1955), the Bancroft Prize-winning "Origins of the New South" (1951) and Pulitzer Prize-winning "Mary Chesnut's Civil War" (1982), which all fueled his other activities..... More